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Thursday, 17 January 2013

Stitch Teasing

I am a member of Stitch Tease - And International Mystery Quilt Bee. What this means is that over a period of one year we are each making a strip or large block for each other but the recipient does not get to see their blocks until they receive their completed quilt top, scheduled for April.

I am very behind in my blocks but working on redeeming myself. I have now completed Hadley's strip block and I can't show you. Well, other than a heavily pixilated version - and some sneaky peeks for Hadley. She wanted a scrappy strip in blues, aquas, teals, greens, greys and oranges. With a few squares of white thrown in the mix so your eye had something to rest on. She may have mentioned Heather Ross fabrics in a less than subtle hint. I hope I have produced something to her liking, though I won't find out until it is too late.

Meanwhile we are enjoying a nice long cold snap by UK standards. It is neither hugely cold nor a long period by my reckoning (that's the Canadian in me sneaking out), and I am loving it. I only wish it had happened before Christmas. I would have loved that to get me in the mood. Everywhere outside is covered in a heavy frost and it is beautiful. The tress, hedgerows, fields, everywhere. It makes me smile as I drive the girls to school. I've tried to photograph it but have failed to capture the true beauty.

It is supposed to start snowing again during the night. I am going to do a grocery shop before today's school run and then cross my fingers that the girls get a snow day tomorrow, and I get a sew day.

If there's a snow day I want to put my request in now that I get to stay off work tomorrow and sew...we're supposed to be visiting family this weekend though so I want a heatwave to melt it all on saturday AM so we can get to the motorway safely ;)

That row looks lovely, even heavily pixelated. I can tell, I really really can!

Your photos of the snow are gorgeous. You have absolutely captured the beauty :-) At least for this little girl - living in North Queensland, I'm not anticipating snow anytime soon, so I will sit here and sigh over your photos and think cold thoughts :-)E xx

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